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Definition of Fixedness

1. Noun. Remaining in place.

2. Noun. The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment.

3. Noun. The quality of being fixed and unchangeable. "The fixedness of his gaze upset her"

Definition of Fixedness

1. n. The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.

Definition of Fixedness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being fixed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fixedness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixedness

fixed rate pulse generator fixed route fixed satellite fixed satellites fixed set fixed sets fixed star fixed stars fixed storage fixed torticollis

fixed up fixed virus fixed wave fixed waves fixedly fixedness (current term) fixednesses fixer fixer-upper fixer-uppers

fixers fixes fixes up fixeth fixgig fixidity fixie fixies fixigena fixigenae

Literary usage of Fixedness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"fixedness OF CHARACTER APPARENTLY SOT DUE TO ANTIQUITY OF INHERITANCE ... fixedness of Character. It is a general belief amongst breeders that the longer ..."

2. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"The desires characterized by comparative fixedness and permanency. There is one mark or trait attending the feelings under consideration which appears to be ..."

3. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"The desires characterized by comparative fixedness and permanency. There is one mark or trait attending the feelings under consideration which appears to be ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... between Catherine's fixedness of purpose and the vacillation of Charles IX, but almost everywhere in the country the policy of bloodshed prevailed. ..."

5. Zarathustra, Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel: Being a Treatise Upon the by Lawrence Heyworth Mills (1906)
"fixedness in Statement. »The laws of the Medes and Persians«, as we understand from the Expressions in Ezra and Daniel, had later at least taken on a ..."

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